Cross-entries keep fields for Fall Highweight, Fabulous Strike in flux
The Grade 3, $200,000 Fall Highweight Handicap at Aqueduct on Thanksgiving Day has a field of nine. The $200,000 Fabulous Strike at Penn National on Thanksgiving Eve has a field of nine. In what has become a holiday tradition, the six-furlong races share four cross-entered horses.
Always Sunshine, based at Parx with Ned Allard; Lewisfield, who is stabled at Charles Town with Jeff Runco; Life in Shambles, who is at Belmont Park with Jason Servis; and Mesotherm, who is trained by Lacey Gaudet at Laurel Park; are entered in both races.
Lewisfield and Heartwood, who is stabled at the Thoroughbred Training Center outside Lexington, Ky., with James Chapman, are the 131-pound highweights at Aqueduct. In addition to the cross-entered runners, the field includes Celtic Chaos (128, Brad Cox), Win With Pride (127, Chris Englehart), Command Post (126, Jason Servis), and Runaway Lute (126, Gary Contessa).
Always Sunshine has been weighted at 130, and Life in Shambles and Mesotherm both have 127.
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At Penn National, the top three on the morning line are Lewisfield, 3-1; Life in Shambles, 4-1; and Always Sunshine, 5-1. The rest of the field is Mesotherm and The Man, 6-1; Even Thunder and Mr. Brix, 8-1; and Midtowncharlybrown and Rockinn On Bye, 12-1.
The Aqueduct holiday card, which will begin at 11:50 a.m., also includes the $150,000 Winter Memories, a 1 1/16-mile turf race for 3-year-old fillies, and the $100,000 Central Park, a 1 1/16-mile turf race for 2-year-olds.
The Central Park, Fall Highweight, and Winter Memories close out the nine-race card as races 7, 8, and 9.
The Wednesday evening Penn National card starts at 6:05 p.m. The $100,000 Blue Mountain Juvenile Fillies, a six-furlong sprint for Pennsylvania-bred 2-year-old fillies is race 2; the $100,000 Swatara, a 1 1/16-mile stakes for 3-year-olds and up, is race 3; and the Fabulous Strike is race 4 with a post time of 7:23 p.m.
